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Some homosexuals insert objects into their penis for pleasure. Some such objects include pencils, pens, swizzle sticks, buckshot, and glass beads.(1) Goldstone described the case of a man who inserted a piano wire in his penis and it ended up knotted in his bladder.(1) The surgeon could not get it through a scope and the man had to have his bladder cut open.

The most common motive associated with foreign bodies of the genitourinary tract is sexual pleasure.(4) Penile foreign objects occur with such frequency that every urologist and practitioner may expect to treat them.(2)

Insertion of objects into the penis is rarely fatal. However, Byard et al. described a 40-year-old man who inserted a pencil into his penis, whereupon it could not be retrieved. He developed a septic condition, did not seek medical help, and subsequently died.(5)

As with rectal foreign body insertions, it is difficult to estimate the incidence of urethral foreign body insertions among homosexuals because medicine is aware of only those individuals that require professional help in removing stuck urethral objects.

References

Goldstone SE. The Ins and Outs of Gay Sex: a medical handbook for men (Dell Publishing, New York, NY, 1999 [The author is an out-of-the-closet homosexual physician]).